Jurgen hails health heroes
his staff as they continue to work from home, plotting out how the remainder of the season might pan out.
But he has explained how they have been keeping in contact via Whatsapp, with the players putting their workouts and funny videos into the group chat – including James Milner’s amusing isolation Instagram posts.
Klopp even tried mimicking one of Alex Oxlade-chamberlain’s dance routines.
“Not as bad as you might think,” he told the club website, in his first full interview since the season was suspended on March 13.
Klopp is keeping them and other front line workers as they battle the disease after the country came together to ‘clap for carers’.
“It’s extraordinary, it’s great,” he said.
“I was sent a video of people in the hospital just outside himself busy the intensive care area and when they started singing ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ I started crying immediately.
“It’s unbelievable but it shows these people not only work but they have such a good spirit. They bring themselves in danger because they help ill, sick and seriously handicapped people, so I couldn’t admire them more and appreciate it more.”
The German coach is hoping the global crisis will eventually have a positive impact on the world.
watching films – having rewatched the Taken series again – while having concern for those really affected by the disease.
He said: “There are so many people out there that have much bigger problems, so it would feel really embarrassing to myself if I was to talk about my problems.
“I have the problems every person in the world has at the moment. That’s the lesson we learn in this moment.”
Klopp admitted the reality of coronavirus hit home on the Monday after they beat Bournemouth to go within two wins of lifting the title when news filtered through about the problems in Spain. Liverpool
Klopp added: “In the future, in 10, 20, 30, 40 years, if we look back and the conclusion is that this was the period when the world showed the biggest solidarity, the biggest love, the biggest friendship or whatever, that would be really great.”
were beaten 4-2 on aggregate by Atletico Madrid in the Champions League on the Wednesday, the last high-profile game in England before the suspension.
“Nobody knew exactly – and nobody knows exactly – how long it will go on,” added Klopp. “So the only way we could do it was to organise it as good as possible for the boys and make sure everything is sorted as much as we can sort it in our little space, in the little area where we are responsible.
“That’s what we did in a very short time. Then we sent the boys home, went home ourselves and here we are still.”